Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids
Artist's tip (Go round the circle): Order: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-purple, purple, red-purple. Primary: red, yellow, blue. Secondary: orange, green, purple. Tertiary: the six two-word colours. Neighbours on the wheel are called analogous colours; black, white, grey and brown are neutrals and are not on the wheel.
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- 1.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) green
- 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
- 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) green
- 4.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
- 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
- 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
- 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
- 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) orange
- 9.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
- 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
- 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
- 13.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
- 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) blue
- 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
- 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
- 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
- 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
- 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
- 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
- 24.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
- 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
- 27.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 28.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) purple (d) blue
- 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
- 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
- 34.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
- 35.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
- 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) blue-purple
- 38.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
- 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-purple
Answer key
- blue-purple
- orange
- yellow-orange
- analogous colours
- yellow
- 12
- False
- blue
- True
- red-orange
- green
- yellow-green
- True
- yellow-orange
- False
- green
- True
- blue
- False
- False
- orange
- primary colour
- yellow-green
- False
- False
- True
- True
- True
- purple
- secondary colour
- True
- False
- yellow-orange
- 6
- 6
- secondary colour
- blue-purple
- True
- tertiary colour
- blue-purple
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